On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:17:10PM -0200, Rafael Espíndola wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:02:47 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:46:59PM -0200, Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote: > > > Hi, I have done some work on porting debian to the powerpc64. The original > > > post: > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/10/msg00193.html > > > > We have also been working silently on it ... > > > > > I also made some bug reports to add support for the powerpc architecture. > > > One > > > missing is the one against dpkg > > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263743). Who is the > > > "powerpc64 port team"? What is the correct name of the architecture? > > > > IT is not, we need to thinkg about this, and it will depend on wheter we go > > the pure64 way, or the biarch way. In any case i would like to have a > > working > > biarch compiler and stuff before i build kernels. Well, i already have a > > biarch compiler, but it is a hacked one, and not fit to be put into debian. > Correct me if I am wrong but I think the amd64 started as a pure64 and > is now adding multiarch support. A pure ppc64 may be a god starting > point.
That is hardly the point, we need a biarch compiler, so we can produce 64bit code on 32bit machines and vice-versa. This is independent of what will finally be chosen for the userland. The amd64 debian situation is so muddied in ugly politics that i would best not use it as reference for this. > > > I see that you need a kernel. Maybe this helps: > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/07/msg00449.html > > > > No, i don't think so, a ppc64 kernel which cannot be built inside debian is > > not really all that usefull, and there is still the question of the glibc. > > Work is underway on this, but there is still a way to go. > Would it be worth if it could build in a pure64? If not, what do you > think is a task worth doing? well, we already have a plan to hack together a mini-glibc package, which would provide only the ppc64 glibc headers, which i hope are enough to build the biarch compiler. Once that is done, we can build ppc64 kernels from it, and also start working on the userland, but a new glibc can't and won't enter sarge, while there may still be some (minimal) hope for the biarch compiler. Stay tuned for more on this. Friendly, Sven Luther
